Introductory text

Seeds

Made 20th March 2019

Coming into operation 22nd March 2019

The Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs^f1 make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Seeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1965^f2, and being a Department designated ^f3 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 ^f4 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the Act.

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f1: The Ministry of Agriculture became known as the Department of Agriculture by virtue of section 7(5) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act (c.36), and was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I 1999/283 (N.i.1). The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development was renamed the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs by section 1(2) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.)
f2: 1965c.22 (NI); section 1 was amended by section 10 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1970c 20 (NI) and S.E. & O.(N.I.) 1972 No 351:section 2 was amended by section 10 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 and S.R. 1977 No.295
f3: S.I. 2000/2812;
f4: 1972 c.68 section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) (a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c 51) and section 3(3) of and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c7)